Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan left Nebula Manor and traveled alone for two and a half months toward No. 78 Front, keeping in touch with family and old friends during the voyage. He arrived at the Human Race border and headed for the massive frontline base.

• Lu Yuan boarded his EX9-rank Interstellar Spaceship and set course for No. 78 Front.
• During the journey, Lu Yuan called his mother Fang Wan, teacher Qin Tianlong, Principal Song Liyuan, and his friends and former classmates to hear how they were doing.
• Lu Yuan learned that Wang Youzhu and Liu Yuan had married and started a family.
• After two and a half months, Lu Yuan reached the debris-filled border region where Human Race, Insect Race, and Devil Race territories met.
• Lu Yuan steered his spaceship toward the giant frontline base.

Lu Yuan arrived at the space station on the frontline and waited for his second senior sister, Wu Yue, to meet him. While he waited, a boastful youth seeking to join the Deep Space Team collided with him and mistook his calm decision to yield for fear.

• Lu Yuan docked his warship at the station and waited outside the entrance for Wu Yue, as she had instructed.
• Ability users gathered at the station in preparation for a universe-level opportunity descending on the frontline where three domains met.
• A burly fourth-tier Star Dome Realm youth boasted to his companions that he would join the Deep Space Team and win the favor of its beautiful captain.
• The youth bumped into Lu Yuan, insulted him, and ordered him to move aside.
• Lu Yuan calmly stepped aside to avoid trouble, and the youth and his lackeys took his restraint as a sign of weakness.

Lu Yuan waited at the Deep Space Team recruitment hall for his Second Senior Sister, captain Wu Yue, to arrive. After stunning the crowd with her appearance, Wu Yue ignored the applicants and flew directly toward Lu Yuan.

• Lu Yuan entered the spatial base and saw that Deep Space Team ranked second on the front's point leaderboard.
• A recruiter announced that Wu Yue would personally oversee that day's selection, exciting the applicants.
• Wu Yue arrived, flying above the hall with four pink Spiritual Power wings, and drew everyone's attention.
• Wu Yue spotted Lu Yuan in the corner and flew straight toward him.

Wu Yue arrived at the recruitment hall and personally greeted Lu Yuan, revealing that he was her junior brother. She clarified that she had come only to receive him, not to recruit new team members.

• Wu Yue flew past the crowd and landed beside Lu Yuan, asking if he was the junior brother she had come to meet.
• Lu Yuan confirmed his identity and recognized Wu Yue as his Second Senior Sister.
• The crowd realized Lu Yuan was Wu Yue’s junior brother, while the burly young man who had shoved him regretted his behavior.
• Wu Yue prepared to leave the hall with Lu Yuan, but recruitment staff stopped her and asked her to screen recruits.
• Wu Yue told the staff she had never said she was there to recruit, leaving them to realize they had misunderstood her purpose.

Wu Yue gave Lu Yuan authority to decide who joined the Deep Space Team, and he began reviewing applicants despite being only at the eighth rank of the Star Evolution Realm. After making a series of firm, impartial decisions, he faced the arrogant young man who had shoved him earlier.

• Wu Yue asked Lu Yuan to handle recruitment for the Deep Space Team, and he accepted.
• Wu Yue announced that Lu Yuan alone would make the final decisions, shocking the applicants who had expected her to conduct the reviews.
• Lu Yuan began assessing applicants and accepted or rejected them based on their cultivation, foundation, temperament, and combat records.
• The burly young man who had shoved Lu Yuan arrived for his review with several flattering lackeys.

Lu Yuan rejected the burly young man and his lackeys from the Deep Space Team selection, and Wu Yue backed his decision. He Yuntian arrived and offered the rejected applicant a place on the Star Sea Team before challenging Wu Yue and Lu Yuan to prove themselves in the Primordial Secret Realm trial.

• Lu Yuan disqualified the burly young man and his lackeys because of their poor character, prompting the young man to protest his authority.
• Wu Yue declared that Lu Yuan's decision was her own and the Deep Space Team's final ruling.
• He Yuntian, captain of the Star Sea Team, offered to recruit the rejected young man.
• Wu Yue mocked He Yuntian for wanting someone she had rejected, and he challenged her team by saying he looked forward to their performance in the Primordial Secret Realm trial.

Lu Yuan and Wu Yue completed the Deep Space Team’s recruitment review, then left together for a meal at the border base’s finest restaurant. The chapter ended with them settling into a secluded luxury private room.

• He Yuntian returned to the Star Sea Team’s recruitment area after challenging Wu Yue, while Lu Yuan understood the rivalry between their teams ahead of the Primordial Secret Realm trial.
• Wu Yue upheld the elimination of the burly applicant and his lackeys, and Lu Yuan resumed the review until it concluded.
• Wu Yue congratulated the successful recruits and instructed them to follow their squad leaders’ orders and train diligently.
• Wu Yue invited Lu Yuan to try the border base’s local food, and the two flew together to its core district as passersby speculated about their relationship.
• Wu Yue requested the restaurant’s signature dishes, and its manager escorted her and Lu Yuan to a secluded luxury private room.

Wu Yue explained the origins, rules, dangers, and rewards of the Primordial Secret Realm trial to Lu Yuan during a private meal. Lu Yuan understood that he would enter the Star Evolution Realm zone and would need to defeat Ghost Creatures and same-realm rivals to earn Ghost Crystals.

• Wu Yue and Lu Yuan shared a meal of spirit dishes that helped ease Lu Yuan's travel fatigue.
• Wu Yue asked Lu Yuan why he thought she had summoned him from the academy, and he guessed it concerned the Primordial Secret Realm trial.
• Wu Yue explained that the Primordial Secret Realm was an unknown black hole realm that opened once every thousand years along the borders between peak races.
• Wu Yue told Lu Yuan that entrants had to hunt Ghost Creatures for Ghost Crystals, which they could exchange for treasures, resources, and inheritances.
• Wu Yue explained that the realm separated entrants into isolated trial zones according to cultivation realm and urged Lu Yuan to dominate his Star Evolution Realm zone.
• Lu Yuan listened, absorbed the rules, and said that he understood.

Wu Yue explained the soul-purity requirements and risks of spiritual enslavement techniques to Lu Yuan, then carefully examined his Spiritual Power to determine whether he could cultivate them. She continued probing his soul foundation, with no result yet stated.

• Lu Yuan asked Wu Yue when the Primordial Secret Realm would open, and she said he had a month to prepare.
• Lu Yuan asked Wu Yue to teach him spiritual enslavement and soul-control techniques, and she agreed while warning that cultivation depended on his Spiritual Power quality.
• Wu Yue explained that soul purity differed from Spiritual Power strength and warned that practicing with an unsuitable foundation could damage Lu Yuan's soul and cultivation path.
• Wu Yue asked Lu Yuan to lower his Spiritual Power barrier and focus so she could examine his soul.
• Lu Yuan briefly lost focus at the touch of Wu Yue's hands, then suppressed his thoughts and concentrated as she repeatedly probed his soul foundation.

Wu Yue confirmed Lu Yuan was qualified to learn Spiritual Enslavement and invited him to live at her residence for convenient instruction. Lu Yuan moved into her side hall and fell into a deep, restful sleep, with lessons set to begin the next morning.

• Wu Yue examined Lu Yuan's Spiritual Power and soul origin, then agreed to teach him Spiritual Enslavement.
• Wu Yue proposed that Lu Yuan move into her residence, and Lu Yuan accepted despite initially worrying about gossip.
• Wu Yue and Lu Yuan flew to her estate, where she showed him the side hall he would occupy.
• Wu Yue told Lu Yuan she would begin teaching him Spiritual Power cultivation methods at dawn.
• Lu Yuan settled into the bedroom and slept soundly after his long journey.

Wu Yue struggled with her unexpected attraction to Lu Yuan after he returned to the border base, trying to calm herself and sleep. She realized that her feelings and the timing of her ovulation were intensifying her thoughts, then startled herself by murmuring Lu Yuan’s name.

• Wu Yue sat alone in the main hall, blushed as she recalled Lu Yuan, and wondered whether she had fallen in love with him at first sight.
• Wu Yue corrected herself that her reaction was lust at first sight and tried to suppress her feelings because Lu Yuan was her junior brother.
• Wu Yue took a bath, dried her hair with spiritual power, and went to bed, but she could not stop thinking about Lu Yuan.
• Wu Yue realized her ovulation period was making her emotions and physical urges more intense.
• Wu Yue murmured Lu Yuan’s name while lost in her thoughts, then snapped awake in embarrassment and panic.

Wu Yue regretted her improper feelings toward Lu Yuan and resolved to focus on teaching him, while Lu Yuan rested and then went to the main hall to seek her guidance. Wu Yue woke to his knock, still shaken by the previous night.

• Wu Yue felt guilty about her thoughts toward Lu Yuan and vowed to teach him earnestly and keep her feelings in check.
• Lu Yuan woke refreshed, ate breakfast, and waited for Wu Yue, but she did not appear by the time morning lessons had passed.
• Lu Yuan decided it was more proper for him to visit his senior sister and seek instruction, so he walked to the main hall.
• Lu Yuan knocked on the hall doors, waking Wu Yue from her restless sleep.

Wu Yue welcomed Lu Yuan to her hall and began teaching him Soul Guide, an EX9-rank spiritual spell. After explaining that spiritual spells depended on Spiritual Power quality rather than cultivation realm, she confirmed that Lu Yuan’s soul foundation qualified him to learn it, and he accepted the scroll for his first lesson.

• Wu Yue opened her hall door to find Lu Yuan waiting to learn the Spiritual Power Enslavement Spell.
• Wu Yue composed herself and formally began teaching Lu Yuan.
• Wu Yue presented Soul Guide, an EX9-rank foundational spiritual spell.
• Lu Yuan questioned whether his eighth-order Lower Rank cultivation could support learning an EX9-rank spell.
• Wu Yue explained that spiritual spells required sufficient Spiritual Power quality, and that Lu Yuan’s soul foundation met the standard.
• Lu Yuan accepted the Soul Guide scroll, and Wu Yue began the lesson beside him.

Wu Yue taught Lu Yuan the opening runes of Soul Guide and guided him through his first cultivation. Lu Yuan quickly linked the runes and began drawing their power into his sea of consciousness as Wu Yue continued the lesson beside him.

• Wu Yue explained that Soul Guide’s first thirty-six runes gathered and refined scattered Spiritual Power.
• Wu Yue recited the runic cadences and used her Spiritual Power to steady Lu Yuan as he followed along.
• Lu Yuan’s recitation improved, and the runes on the scroll lit up as his Spiritual Power condensed and grew purer.
• Wu Yue was impressed by Lu Yuan’s rapid progress and instructed him to guide the runes’ power into his sea of consciousness.
• Lu Yuan closed his eyes and began drawing the spell’s power into his sea of consciousness while Wu Yue continued teaching.